Kxongi
A Constructed Language
Kxongi is a CVC & SOV language with permanent stress on the penultimate syllable
of words, unlike Tapajukhe, who stressed all words on the second syllable.
AKA Modern Tapajukhe, Kxongi is the result of lexical changes after the Black Hole Bomb incident. The speakers left of Tapajukhe and Leypajukhe (a regional dialect spoken in the global south in areas like Eastern, Central, and Southern Tu’tunu) decided that the cultural change from a warmongering, land conquering society to one of progressing equity and honorable living necessitated a deliberate, purposeful language change to accelerate the natural evolution of the language. Some Kxongi spellings of words are similar to words in Tapajukhe, however, for many words, a new lexicon was created in a way to distance the ancestors from the modern race.
Features
The Kxongi language has a small phonemic inventory, and as such, the (impure) abjad is simple to learn.
The letters and IPA notation are as follows:
Consonants
- kx /k͡x/ (Voiceless velar affricate)
- m /m/ (Bilabial nasal)
- n /n/ (Voiced alveolar nasal)
- ng /ŋ/ (Voiced velar nasal)
- p /p/ (Voiceless bilabial stop)
- t /t/ (Voiceless alveolar stop)
- k /k/ (Voiceless velar stop)
- s /s/ (Voiceless alveolar fricative)
- z /ʒ/ (Voiced palato-alveolar fricative)
- j /ʤ/ (Voiced palato-alveolar affricate)
- l /l/ (Voiced alveolar lateral approximant)
- ' /ʔ/ (Glottal stop)
Vowels
- a /a/ (Open front unrounded vowel)
- e /ɜ/ (Open-mid central unrounded vowel)
- i /i/ (Close front unrounded vowel
- u /u/ (Close back rounded vowel)
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